By Lavinia | Published:
April 25, 2010
Moshe Feldenkrais defined health as the ability to recover from shock. Shock can come in many forms: injury, illness, war, physical trauma, losing a job. I recently got a phone call that my fifty year old brother had been found dead of a heart attack. Even now as I sit here writing this, waves of [...]
By Lavinia | Published:
February 28, 2010
This past December after one of the many North Carolina snowstorms, we had no power for four days. No phone, no water, no light. No computer, no TV. It was hard to read by candlelight. So I decided to do something I’d been avoiding since the New Age Movement began. I was going to make [...]
By Lavinia | Published:
January 10, 2010
We’re a culture in love with super powers, or rather the idea of super powers. Whether it’s superheroes battling evil forces, aliens from a superior civilization or our own fantastic imaginations, there is a longing to go beyond our perceived limitations. I remember a particular episode of NPR’s program, This American Life where people [...]
By Lavinia | Published:
November 25, 2009
Congratulations! If you’re reading this, you still have a computer, you’re not sitting out on the street, and more than likely, you will eat at least one meal today. Somehow, in spite of Bernard Madoff, Goldman Sachs, Washington Mutual, AIG, all the doom and gloom, all the betrayals and disappointments, we’re still standing (and sitting, [...]
By Lavinia | Published:
October 28, 2009
A few years ago, I got one of those amazing viruses that totally incapacitate you for twenty four hours. At a certain point, my fever must have gone through the roof. I began to babble (unfortunately I was alone, so no one took notes of what channeled wisdom from the astral plane I [...]
By Lavinia | Published:
October 7, 2009
For a month, I kept banging my head. Unintentionally, or so it seemed. Suddenly everywhere I turned, I encountered a barrier. Obstacles leapt in to connect with my forehead, my temple, the top of my skull.
Cursing, but pushing on, I walked into more doors. I hit my head on the car door frame more [...]
Also posted in Emotions, Movement, Thought, Uncategorized, laughter | Tagged change, choice, feldenkrais, happiness, happy, learning, mobility, Robert Pirsig |
By Lavinia | Published:
September 20, 2009
The other day, I was in my garden picking tomatoes when something arrested my foot, a glimmer of unaccustomed yellow in the mulch. Just beneath the sole of my foot sat a turtle, frozen, trying to appear invisible next to a fallen tomato with a tell tale bite. “Hmmm. How long have you been sitting [...]
By Lavinia | Published:
September 1, 2009
Marcie showed up for a workshop the other day. I was surprised, because she had come to see me the other day after being diagnosed with a herniated disc. Her doctor had recommended a cortisone shot and/or surgery. I’m always really careful when someone shows up in my office with a “diagnosis.” Moshe Feldenkrais often [...]
By Lavinia | Published:
December 27, 2008
I was having a conversation with a psychotherapist friend today who exclaimed, “It’s all in the body after all, isn’t it?” Our thoughts, emotions, dreams, fears, injuries, aspirations, opinions reside in our bodies, not outside of us. As a Feldenkrais teacher for all these years, I’ve long agreed with Moshe Feldenkrais who believed “The body [...]
